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• UNCA ranked in nation’s Top 20 for “Best Quality of Life,” “Town-Gown Relations,” and More, in The Princeton Review’s “The Best 385 Colleges,” 2020 Edition

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:49

  From Staff Reports UNC Asheville is once again featured as one of The Princeton Review’s best colleges and is ranked in the top 20 nationally on several lists with accolades for the “Best Quality of Life,” and “The City Gets High...

• Dude ranch outside of AVL becomes 40th N.C. state park

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:46

  From Staff Reports  RALEIGH — Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 535 into law on July 19, authorizing Pisgah View State Park as a new state park in Buncombe and Haywood counties, according to a July 22 press release from the governorâ€...

• As it ends, ‘lack of diversity’ issue raised about speakers at ‘connection’ forum fielded by Hitch

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:44

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com Six different speakers gave separate addresses on “What are we doing now to connect community?” at UNC Asheville’s Leadership Asheville Buzz Breakfast series on July 25 at Crowne Plaza Expo ...

• Black officials blast police gang data release; APD apologizes

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:43

  From Staff Reports    The Asheville Police Department issued an apology after its recent release “of its numbers on gangs” triggered cricism from some local black officials who contended that “the data is not helpful in addre...

• Grand jury indicts Frost on 11 counts of fraud

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:42

  From Staff Reports A federal grand jury on July 16 afternoon  in Asheville indicted Ellen Frost, a former Buncombe County commissioner, on 11 counts of fraud, Asheville television station WLOS News 13 reported that evening. Specifically, the grand ...

• Sinkhole becomes ‘real fixation’ for some of its cult-like followers

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:41

  From Staff Reports A massive 36-foot sinkhole in a Merrimon Avenue parking lot in North Asheville, believed to be caused by piping problems, reportedly has gained a huge fan base on social media. “Asheville Sinkhole Group,” a Facebook collec...

• Letters to the Editor: August 2019

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:37

  Gratitude expressed to those who helped a lost traveler I was recently on a trip to your lovely city (Asheville) and got lost — imagine that. My son, who lives in Raleigh, N.C., told me to stop at one of th...

• The Daily Planet's Opinion: August 2019

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:33

  Could â€˜Storm Area 51’ joke be a trap by aliens to engorge on 1M conspiracy theorists? It would be the ultimate irony if the “Storm Area 51” Facebook joke ...

• A man whose soul was tried by Trumpism

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:31

  By LEE BALLARD Special to the Daily Planet Republican congressman from Michigan made news recently when he said President Trump should be impeached and then later resigned from the GOP.   His name is Justin Amash — son of Palestinian-Syrian...

• The Candid Conservative: Doomy-gloomy Democrats ....

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:28

  “There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.”  —  Robert Hayne   By CARL MUMPOWER Special to the Daily Planet   ...

• The Advice Goddess: August 2019

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:25

  The filet of the land By AMY ALKON Syndicated Columnist I’m a 36-year-old single man. I see buying a woman dinner as a nice part of courting. Lately, however, women keep pretending to be interested in me only to vanish afte...

• State Bluegrass Festival features top names

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:22

  From Staff Reports MARION — The 45th Annual North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival will be held Aug. 15-17 at Tom Johnson Camping World Resort at 1885 U.S. Highway 70 West in Marion. The three-day event will begin at noon each day, co...

• ‘Ooh-ah, dip di dip ta dip, shoo bop shoo bopty bop....’ Quintet thrills silver-haired fans with golden-era’s doo-wop hits

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:20

  By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   FRANKLIN — “Ooh-ah, dip di dip ta dip, shoo bop shoo bopty bop.” Or so the vocal quintet The Sock Hops, specializing in doo-wop, sang in soaring harmony July 12 at the Smoky Mountai...

• Live bands, fun, food? Always Apple Festival highlights

  Created: Tuesday, 06 August 2019 22:19

  From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — The 73rd Annual North Carolina Apple Festival — a four-day celebration in honor of the huge local apple crop — will be held Aug. 30-Sept. 2 (Labor Day weekend) in historic downtown Hender...

• Flatiron Bdg. conversion plan tweaked, wins city OK

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:43

  Boutique hotel to offer 71 rooms, instead of 80 From Staff Reports  A revised plan to convert downtown Asheville’s iconic traingular-shaped Flatiron Building, completed in 1927, into a boutique hotel was ...

• Asheville not a ‘connected community,’ panel says

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:34

  With gentrification, tourism, city’s black population feeling left out? By JOHN NORTH john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com   UNC Ashevlle’s Leadership Asheville program hosted a lively panel discussion that...

• City manager hires new police chief; begins job July 29

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:34

  From Staff Reports After what it termed “a national search informed by robust input from our local community,” Asheville City Manager Debra Campbell “is excited to announce” that Chris Bailey will become Asheville’s next police chief, according...

• APD HQ renamed to honor its 1st black lieutenant Walter Robertson

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:33

  From Staff Reports  Asheville City Council on June 11 voted unanimously to name the Asheville Police Headquarters in memory of former Asheville Police Lt. Walter Robertson.  “During his 28-year tenure at the Asheville Police Department, ‘W...

• Developer files suit against county over project denial

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:32

  From Staff Reports A South Carolina-based property developer  is suing Buncombe County over its denial of plans for a 214-unit apartment complex in East Asheville. “In April 2018, the county Board of Adjustments rejected a plan by RAB Builders to...

• Buncombe names 2 women as assistant county managers

  Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 23:31

  From Staff Reports Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder recently announced the hiring of two new assistant county managers: Dakisha Wesley and Sybil Tate. The announcement on June 14 followed a months-long national search, the county said in a press rel...